CrackBerry Asks: What are you most looking forward to in BlackBerry 10?

A lot of things became much more clear about BlackBerry 10 thanks to the preview at BlackBerry World last month, and I'm really happy about the direction RIM is taking with it. It's not losing focus of being a communication tool and productivity tool first, which is what has made BlackBerry so useful over the years (but of course it'll rock at media and games too).

I'm super excited for a touchscreen experience that features a user interface optimized for one-handed ease of use. I'm loving the BlackBerry "flow" experience that will allow me to seamlessly traverse between applications. And as much as I love physical keyboards, I'm digging the innovation in the new touchscreen keyboard, which looks like it will be both easy and addictive to use.

And of course I'm loving that BlackBery 10 is based on the rock solid QNX platform. It's easy to forget that with 78 million BlackBerry Smartphone owners in the world but only a couple mllion (I'm estimating...) PlayBook tablet owners, that the vast majority of BlackBerry users (and most people in the world for that matter) haven't experienced just how much different this new platform is. All of the little BlackBerry annoyances of the past (hour glassing, running low on app memory, etc.) are history. The QNX platform is POWERFUL.

Question of the Week: So on that note, CrackBerry Nation, I want to know... what are you looking forward to most in BlackBerry 10?Sound off in the comments to this post!

CrackBerry Asks: What are you most looking forward to in BlackBerry 10?

IDK about that. Seems they have wrote down an extrodinary amount of PB inventory. Not to mention that yes BB may have SHIPPED a few million out, that certainly doesn't mean they sold thru those.

Not to rain on the BB parade or anything, but this site is turning more and more into, I love BB and I am going to ignore facts, and just say what I feel regardless of it being accurate information or not.

Regardless of your personal feelings on the Playbook, it is / was a catastrophic failure in terms of SALES. Which ultimately is the only number worth keeping track of.

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They have announced 1.45 million sales as of last quarter. In that quarter they sold 500,000 units. Given that last quarter sales and that this quarter is almost up, 2 million isn't out of the question. And this is sales, not inventory numbers.

Just because Playbook got off to a bad start, mostly because of RIM not including some of their basic apps and the media beating them over it, does not mean that it is not (today) a great little tablet. It is slowly gaining market share and this will likely escalate with the launch of BB10. I have an IPAD and a PB. Both have their issues, but I can honestly say that purely on hardware and the OS's I do prefer the PB. And guess what? I only paid about half the cost of my IPAD for my PB. RIM needs to get the word out about the PB because it's a great little device with TRUE MULTITASKING. I can only see sales continuing to grow.

This figure is probably about right. Even though RIMM wrote off a significant portion of the PlayBook inventory, it doesn't mean they went to the landfill - they were just sold at a much lower price (thus the write-off).

Lower price allowed me to get a 2nd after making the mistake of getting a 16g pb. Was able to give my pb to my gf and get a 64g. Even persuaded my gf to get a 9900 last week because she was planning on jumping to the other platforms.

BB10 can wait, just need to get it right.

- all the great things of bb7
- above average bat life
- non of the negatives of bbos. Long app dl time, partitioned app memory, too many options for the average user.

Make it flow with with easy to use flashy ui, keep the same apps dl experience of the pb (as always make it faster).. Most importantly give me something to keep the i-s and driod owners off my back to switch. Be bold.

I'm looking forward to more people having a blackberry... or at least having an easier time recommending a blackberry to people.

I know over all it will be a great experience, but I really hope I don't lose some of those minor yet important thingsthat made me love BB in the first place; namely, SureType keyboard layout, removeable battery, ability to customize fine details throughout the device, logical ease of use, ability to access all files that I have stored on my phone via USB, removeable storage, and so much more,

It seems with every upgrade in my life I lose features I was fond of in the device being replaced.

I'm looking forward to the PlayBook experience with installing and deleting apps. OS7 and previous versions are a pain... Slow app world downloads and updates, continuous need to reboot, half the apps are unavailable when upgrading to a newer device. With BlackBerry 10, I'm looking forward to a consistent app ecosystem, seamless app updates and fast downloads without the need to continuously reboot. When an app will work on every BlackBerry devices, it might appeal some more developpers.

Welcome to QNX! If you have a PlayBook you would know the answer to this :) A QNX based BB10 OS will be:

* fast & smooth; no OS spinning clocks
* app hungry with no memory partitioning
* fully multitasking, multithreaded (depends on development environment)
* real-time capabilities with no latency, if RIM turns it on
* you can force-kill an app, unlike the current BlackBerry OS; although RIM is adding some limited app control to some flavors of 7.1
* no reboots after installing apps

All BlackBerry OS woes are gone. Things don't bog down because you run too many apps, but stuff won't run on BB10 if you don't have resources it needs. It's a much better model. I only hope we will be able to kill background processes that consume resources as we can with apps -- perhaps in a different way.

FLOW BABY!!! Loving the glance features and gestures are GODLY when you get to use them...Picked up my old iPhone after months, and I use my PlayBook daily and I find it such a hassle to jump through apps on the iphone! MULTITASKING!!

This would be the Illustrious BB Key you would be speaking about, right? Apple still doesn't get it!!! This key is MY WORLD. And speaking of "flow". This key helps me find all the crap I hide and move around effortlessly, and that iPeople cannot FATHOM. This is the singularly the only reason I stay with BB, nobody can touch them with this kind of ability. Pack it under the hood of the "10", and Watch Out!

From BlackBerry World, they added a kind of a timeline to a picture so we can modify an element in the picture from a few moments before the pic was taken to a few moments after in order to modify already taken pictures to remove closed eyes on a subject for example. Seems great!

Same here. Without a physical keyboard, the device would have to absolutely blow me away to switch. There are many things I prefer about an iPhone to my 9930, but at the end of the day, the keyboard keeps pulling me back.

Before predetermining the first BB10 device and passing judgement on the lack of a hard keyboard, let's first see what the first BB10 device is. I'm sure RIM will blow us away with what they're doing. Certainly, some may still prefer a keyboard but we can also bluetooth a physical keyboard or wait for the next BB10 device with keyboard.

I'm ok with a full touchscreen. I don't like small screen. And I almost never use the physical on my 9800. I'm agree that the keybord on the 9900 is really smooth but I think the virtual keybord on my torch is faster.

As much as I am a fan of the physical keyboard, I think it would be a mistake by RIM produce physical keyboard phones. I love my Torch which gives me both touch and physical, but I think the way of the new phones is bigger screens. Even Apple is falling behind in this demand as manufacturers such as the world's largest seller of smart phones, Samsung, are producing large screen touch phones and they are becoming the rage. It's expected that Samsung will continue to outpace Apple in worldwide sales because of their large, flashy touch screen phones. While Apple really hasn't come out with anything new for a while and quite frankly the Iphone is starting to become a little boring too many who have owned it for awhile.

1. All Common apps
But specially cross platform communication apps like Skype etc ). I stay away from all single platform apps like facetime BBM etc..

2. Nice, Full screen
keyboard can be soft or slide.

3. CHARGING SHOULD WORK.
why are there so many problems w/ charging BB devices when you do not use blackberry's own charger. Its a standard micro USB connector, which should work when matched w/ correct amperage.

4. VPN should work - and work well!

5. Better Memory management

6. FREQUENT updates to keep platform relevant.
Put out an amazing product but continue to keep up via downloads. Primary reason many have moved away. Developers don't want to work on such a fractured platform with more than one screen resolutions, models, OS versions etc..

7. front facing camera for chat

Know what works and loose what does not.
Keep the ability for user-replace battery
Many like the physical keyboard, but w/o sacrificing any screen
Good work w/ browser displaying all websites.

Not sure what issues you've been having with using a non-BB charger. I'm currently charging my phone with a Nokia micro USB charger, and frequently use a Samsung Galaxy Nexus charger as well. How odd that you've had difficulty with that.

I really look forward to BB10, however we have to be clear that there is a reason why we love our current BBs, all the unique functionalities which allows us to rely on it, i just hope QNX BB10 is able to keep most if not all these features and real time connectivity as BB7, instant notifications, bedside mode, bridge etc, combined with all the coolness, fluidity and multitasking power of QNX. Just amazing!!!

I have no doubt that QNX - os10 will rock with great capabilities and UI. However it will matter little if large scale corp users will have fled before the release. Rim must get in front of large scale users and begin informing and teasing them of the up coming updates before they switch to iOS or droid. I've seen many corps make these switches recently. My company is about to make a switch as well. Rim will have a much steeper hill to climb if they lose corporations while competing in the personal device market. VP of marketing or sales better get out and beat the bushes while they still have a job. If they continue to lose corp/gov users they will be dead sooner rather than later and that's a guarantee!

Looking to see the critics silenced. Sick of being asked why I bought a blackberry. No more spinning clocks no more battery pulls no more freezing up. Camera that goes back in time. Fluid movement. Memory management. Can't wait.

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